Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
NameDame Florence Evelyn Eleanor OLIFFE, 5970
Birth1851
Death1930
Spouses
Birth1844
Death1931
FatherSir Isaac Lowthian BELL , 5971 (1816-1904)
MotherMargaret PATTINSON , 5972 (-1886)
ChildrenMary Katherine , 4906
Notes for Dame Florence Evelyn Eleanor OLIFFE
Dame Florence Eveleen Eleanore Bell DBE (1851 - 16 May 1930), née Olliffe, was a British writer and playwright.

The daughter of Irish-born Joseph Francis Olliffe (later Sir Joseph Olliffe) and the former Laura Cubitt, she was the second wife of 2nd Baronet Bell of Rounton Grange. They had three children:
Hugh Lowthian Bell (21 October 1878 – 2 February 1926)

Florence Elsa Bell (c. 1880 – 3 May 1971, married Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond)

Mary Katherine Bell, OBE (c. 1882 - 8 October 1966, married Charles Philips Trevelyan)

Additionally, Florence Bell was stepmother to her husband's children from his first marriage: British writer and spy Gertrude Bell (1868 – 1926) and Maurice (Sir Maurice Hugh Lowthian Bell, 3rd Baronet; 1871–1944).
In 1918 Florence Bell was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE).

Dame Florence Bell died on 16 May 1930. There are no records of her on www.findmypast.co.uk which is the United Kingdom's leading free family tree tracing website. There are also no justifiable records on the website of her second daughter, Florence Elsa Bell.[original research?]
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